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Today's featured article Map of the Goals of the Ten Year Crusade The Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963) was a plan launched by Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith, to facilitate an organized expansion of the Faith. Among the goals of the plan were to begin the teaching and consolidation of the Faith, develop the institutions at the World Centre, consolidate open territories, and open the remaining "chief virgin territories" around the globe. The title 'Knight of Bahá’u’lláh' was given to those Bahá’ís who arose to open new territories to the Faith during the Ten Year Crusade and in 1963 the plan culminated with the first election of the Universal House of Justice.

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Today's featured individual Violet McKinley (1882-1959) was a pioneer and Knight of Bahá’u’lláh named for pioneering to Cyprus. Born at Enfield, north of London, into the prosperous trading environment of the late Victorian epoch, Violet McKinley (née Watson) was blessed with two great spiritual advantages: an extremely delicate constitution, which kept the thought of the other world very close, and a persistently inquiring mind - she always wanted to know 'Why?' This condition was stimulated by an orthodox but solid education at home. Too frail to go to school, she had a continental governess for eight years, with hard study of the nineteenth century romantics: Schiller, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Heine, Lamartine, etc. Her study was conducted all in German on week, all in French the other, and this, coupled with a deep religious sense that had been instilled in her by a very narrow but thoroughly sincere and right minded nurse during her early childhood, developed a viewpoint totally unsympathetic to the shallow and materialistic background of her class and daily life.

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Today's featured book The Story of Bahá’u’lláh presents in a clear narrative style the life of the prophet from His birth into a wealthy and noble family, through His transforming spiritual experience while incarcerated in the infamous Black Pit of Tehran, and over the decades of harsh and increasingly remote exile that followed.

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Today's featured quote One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task. Thus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail. —‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of

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Today's featured picture Evening view of the Bahá’í House of Worship in New Delhi, India.

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Bahá - Jalál - Jamál - ‘Aẓamat - Núr - Raḥmat - Kalimát - Kamál - Asmá’ - ‘Izzat - Mashíyyat - ‘Ilm - Qudrat - Qawl - Masá’il - Sharaf - Sulṭán - Mulk - Ayyám-i-Há - ‘Alá’

Today in Bahá’í history August 2 in Bahá’í history: [edit] 1951: The Bahá’í community of Uganda is established following the arrival of pioneers from Great Britain and Iran More anniversaries...